Chapter 5

Note 1: YES I AM ALIVE! Never go to an all boys' prep school, so much work! Actually just make that never go to an all boys' school. Anyway here's the chapter, hope you enjoy.

Note 2: Japanese names used, look on Wikipedia if you don't know who's who.

Note 3: Conan acts very OCC in this story

Note 4: Not mine!

Conan was finally fast asleep, it took a half hour of cuddling him and reassuring him that everything was going to be okay before he fell asleep in her arms. It took her another half hour before she felt confident that he was sleeping deeply enough to be left alone while she finished up her nightly chores, which took at least an hour to complete. She was thoroughly exhausted by the time she was finished and ready to go to sleep when the sound of eggs hitting the windows could be heard. It was loud, extremely loud. The sound had woken up Conan who ran into the living room with a panicked expression on his face. Ran picked him up in her arms before going outside and inspecting the damage, it was brutal. Remains of eggs were splattered everywhere.

"Who did this Ran?" Conan asked with wide eyes.

"I don't know Conan," she replied while sighing. "It could be any number of people; other private eyes jealous of dad, boys at school who I turned down, people I defeated at karate, and so on."

"Why would they do something like this? You did nothing wrong."

"Jealously makes people do crazy things Conan, don't worry about it. Now let's get you back to bed before you get sick."

"Okay…"

The next Day, around 10 Am:

Conan was absolutely furious with himself. He was losing control over his actions and thoughts. He had always felt a little handicapped in his current condition. As much as he hated to admit it, he could not take care of himself. He was too small to do almost everything and mostly everything was out of his reach. His stamina was not what it was as a teenager and he got tired very easily. However, even if he was a dependent child physically, mentally he was still his old self.

That is what kept him going, however over the last week he had noticed himself slipping. He was starting to act like a kid, a very young kid. He was constantly crying and clinging to Ran. Looking back now he felt only humiliation and embarrassment, however he knew that would change very shortly, perhaps the very moment Ran walks in the door. Whenever he had lost control over himself and felt like an overwhelmed child she was there to comfort him. She was his mother figure. That's all there was to it, in the absence of his parents he had turned to Ran for support. He couldn't believe it, Ran the girl who so often cried over him and his sudden disappearance was now protecting him from the big, bad monsters in the middle of the night. God it made him sick.

He should have figured something like this would have happened. It was just his luck. Ordinarily he would go straight to Dr. Agasa's house to have him figure out a solution, but he knew it was too late. At this point he wasn't even sure if he wanted a solution. He knew that sounded crazy, but he knew any cure that it would be only be temporary. He could only go on for so long before all the medication he was taking caught up with him. Also he didn't want to go back to Ran explaining everything that had happened knowing the scene that it would cause. Before it was going to be, "hey Ran I was that little independent kid you took care of, surprise!" That would have been bad enough, but now it was "I was the small dependent, cry baby you practically mothered." Jimmy didn't have it in him to do that, he had too much pride.

The option to remain Conan has always been in the back of his mind since the faithful day he woke up ten years younger than his actual age. He had fought desperately to keep that option a last ditch resort, but now it appeared nature was making up his mind for him.

"Tonight, I get Dr. Agasa to let me in my own home where I can be alone and collect my thoughts properly and get everything ready. I better write it down incase I forget when I see her again." Conan muttered while hastily writing something down on a peace of paper and put it in his pocket.

Meanwhile:

The principle of Teitan Elementary was a very logical man, it was necessary a necessary element in his line of work. He knew that the young second grader meant no harm at all by running into the girl's room; he was only six for crying out loud! He also knew despite this, the simple truth the story would get blown out of proportion and that the girl's parents would come storming in to his office ready to kill something. All parents in his district would, and Mr. and Mrs. Higuchi would be no exception and would believe everything their little Naomi told them about the incident.

"This is an outrage, and I will not stand for it." Mr. Higuchi said the second he walked in with his wife.

"Please sir calm down."

"Calm down? You want me to calm down when you have perverts running around your school?" Mr. Higuchi responded even more furious.

"It was an accident," he said trying to tell the angry parents what really happened, but he was interrupted, this time by Mrs. Higuchi.

"An accident, you call a boy runs into the girl's room, an accident?"

"In this case I would. You're so called 'pervert' is a six year old boy a quarter of your daughter's size who was in dire need of a bathroom. All that really happened was a little kid overestimated his bladder and panicked at the last second."

"So he's really in…"

"Second grade," he replied finishing both parent's half asked question.

"But Naomi said the boy was in her grade. She wouldn't lie to us." Mr. Higuchi said in a defensive tone.

"From what she's told me she didn't have enough time to see how old he was. She tossed the young boy out of the room with ease the second she could tell he didn't belong there. This is just a giant misunderstanding"

"Is that what the boy told you?" Mrs. Higuchi asked him dangerously.

"The boy didn't tell any form of story. He simple cried his eyes out from embarrassment."

"Why?" both parents asked sounding puzzled.

"He cried because as soon as he was thrown out of the room he lost control of his bladder and wet himself in front of his entire class. It was probably the most humiliating moment of his young life"

"I get you so far, but there's one thing I don't get. Why the girl's room? I mean I understand panicking but the boy's room is right next to it. Is this kid slow of something?"

"Not at all, he is the brightest in the class. However, this boy is very short for his age. So short he couldn't reach anything, not his locker, the water fountain, or the boy's rooms. All of the handles were out of reach.. However the door to the girl's room is a different style, push."

Both parents finally saw the logic behind the situation and looked at each other before nodding.

"We see, were sorry for barging in like this," Mrs. Higuchi said clearly embarrassed.

"It's no problem, you were concerned. I would have need more worried if you hadn't come barging in here demanding an explanation."

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